Word: fibers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called 'innocent' forms of gambling, such as legalized race-track wagers, betting on athletic events, lotteries, bingo and the like, contribute to weakening the moral fiber of the individual and lower the tone of the community...
...attitude about his success. He discusses himself in the third person-as "Hoppy" or "this character"-and seems to feel that he has retapped the same deep vein of American character which made the Old West, and that it is both his fate and his duty to strengthen the fiber of U.S. youth...
...Herbert Hoover had set up RFC to lend $1.5 billion to ailing banks and industries. Then the Democrats fattened and pampered it like one of their own alphabetical children, bolstered its lending power to $18.8 billion, and put it into the wartime business of running rubber plants, Central American fiber plantations and steel mills...
From the South, Champion Paper & Fiber Co.'s Charles W. Dabney Jr. reported that the South's second-half business would outstrip 1950's first six months. "Employment appears to have been stabilized...
...three mousy women adorns an ad saying, culturally, "To inform the population: The Moscow Clothing Trust sells all-readymade women's dresses of silk, wool and cotton." A woman's stocking ad cries up the virtues of "a new fiber called Kapron," presumably a Soviet nylon. "They mold the leg nicely, wash easily, keep shape and color...